The 2024-2025 Student Advisory Group
Fifteen high school students from across the Bay Area will be invited to participate in UCBHSSP's 3rd annual Student Advisory Group.
Are you interested in history? Are you interested in the history of the Bay Area and your community? Do you want to learn strategies that will help you take action on issues that are important to you and your community?
This year, the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project will host its third Student Advisory Board! We will bring together students who are interested in history to take a deep dive into the People's History of the Bay Area and produce a call to action or build awareness around a topic that is affecting our community. Our work together and your culminating projects will make sure that student voices and perspectives inform the work of UCBHSSP.
In December 2021, the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project launched its first student advisory group. This group of diverse high school students from across the Bay Area researched, wrote about and shared undertold histories of the Bay Area. Check out the student work and the lesson sequence it informed. Particpants in the 2022 Student Advisory group explored the historic roots of contemporary issues and participated in a panel at the California Council for the Social Studies as well as met with history educators visiting UC Berkeley.
Are you a Bay Area high school student?
Do you want to:
- Learn about the people's history of the Bay Area?
- Solve a problem in your community and identify its historical roots?
- Connect with other Bay Area students who love history?
Apply to Participate!
Students will:
- Spend the advisory group sessions learning about, researching, and then, using the tools of civic engagement to engage in creating change in your local community
- Choose what aspect of a local issue that they want to learn more about and how they want to share this issue with the wider community
- Work collaboratively with high school students from across the Bay Area
Meeting Time: We will meet one Thursday a month from 4-6pm on zoom.
Meeting Dates: Dec. 12, 2024, Jan. 9, 2025, Feb. 20, 2025, March 13, 2025 April 17, 2025, May 8, 2025
If you have questions about the application, email us at ucbhssp@berkeley.edu
APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 1st, 2024
